This is not really a news blog, but I spotted something on a recent video titled “Reuters visits the Raspberry Pi factory” at raspberrypi.org. The picture below is a screenshot from about 2 minutes 17 seconds into the video. It shows a box labelled RASPBERRY PI 4GB U-ICC-005-43 and a photo of a board. (click …
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That’ll teach me to go away for a weekend. It seems my previous post “Automatic Raspberry Pi board revision detection: model A, B1 and B2” was surprisingly popular. It was picked up by several important Raspberry Pi web sites and led to a significant spike in visitors. If you are someone who found their way …
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Introduction A while ago I ordered and received a LEDBorg bright, three-colour LED for my Raspberry Pi. I am a fan of LEDs since I first saw those large LEDÂ screens in Seattle, and so this time wanted to have a go at writing software to drive the GPIO pins, but didn’t want to go to …
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As I mentioned yesterday, I now have some new Raspberry Pi boards to play with, and also some extra hardware. I had planned to spend this evening writing some GPIO code to control the colours and brightness of the LEDborg. I even got as far as plugging it in to one of the boards. Then …
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